Ironing device.



M. SUNSHINE. IEONING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED 00T. 30, 1906.

llgv'entor:

THE NoRRIs PETERS co., WASHINGTON. n. c.

EATENTED MAEQE, 1907.

MONROE SUNSHINE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IRONING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 5, 1907.

Application filed October 30, 1906. Serial No. 341.256.

Be it knownthat I, MoNRoE SUNSHINE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing Devices, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention relates to improvements in ironing devices, and particularly to that class of ironing devices in which the sad-iron or pressing-iron is heated by means of a mixture of compressed air and gas.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved device of this kind which is simple in construction, durable, inexpensive, and by means of which the compressed air for heating the sad-iron is produced by the acts of ironing and placing the sad-iron upon the articles to be ironed and upon the buck upon which it rests when not in use, thus dispensing with the expense of providing and maintaining a power-driven air-compressing plant.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures, Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved ironing device, parts being broken away and others shown in section. Fig. 2 is a similar view of a modi'lied construction.

The ironing-'table A is of conventional construction, and on its top plate B a bellows C of any suitable construction is secured, and on the movable bellows-board D the ironing or pressing board E and the buck F are placed or secured. An air-chamber or compressedair reservoir G is preferably secured to the under side of the table top plate B, and from this reservoir a flexible tube II leads to the burner J of the sad-iron K, to which a flexible gas-supply pipe L also leads.

M are straps for guiding the movable board D of the bellows, and N are expanding-springs in the bellows.

The heavy sad-iron is lifted off the buck F and forcibly brought down upon the clothes or garments on the ironing-board, whereby the bellows O is compressed more or less and whereby a greater or less quantity of compressed air is forced into the reservoir G, and by the pressure exerted on the iron while applying or holding it on the garments the bellows O is collapsed still further and more compressed air forced into the reservoir Gr,

and so on. In a like manner a greater or less quantity of compressed air is forced into the reservoir G when the sad-iron is placed upon the buck F, so that without requiring any more movements or any more exertion than is required when the board and buck are on an ordinary table a sufficient supply of com` pressed air for heating the sad-iron in con nection with a gas-supply is produced.

In the modification shown in Fig. 2 the entire table rests upon the bellows C', the legs O being suitably guided in their up and down movementsas is, for example, exemplified by the guides I). The tube Q connects the bellows C with the reservoir G, and the two tubes H/ and L lead from the reservoir and gas-supply, respectively, to the burner J. N are the expanding-springs for the bellows. Vith this construction the compressed air is also produced without further labor or exer- -tion by placing the sad-iron upon the garment or buck, as stated above.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination with an ironing-table, of an air-compressor, an ironingfbuck and means for operating the air-compressor from said buck, and a conductor connecting the air-compressor with a gashcated sad-iron, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with an ironing-table, of an air-compressor, an ironing-buck, a sadiron support and means for operating the air-compressor from the buck and from the sad-iron support, and a conductor connecting the air-compressor with a gas-heated sadiron, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with Van ironing-table, of an air-compressor, an ironing-buck, means for operating the air-compressor from said buck, a sad-iron support, means for operating the compressor from said support, of a compressed-air reservoir connected with the air-compressor, and a flexible conductor connecting the reservoir and a gas-heated sadiron, substantially as set forth.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New' York, this 22d day of October, A. D. 1906.

MONROE SUNSHINE. lVitnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, OLIN A. FOSTER.

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